Re: [W3C Media Annotation WG] Request for Expert Review (API)

2010/4/19 Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>

> Silvia -
>
> On Apr 19, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> >>
> >> As for the language attribute, it will not always be the case that a
> >> metadata source will use a single language for all its properties. For
> >> example, an RDF file may contain :
> >>
> >> <video.ogg> dc:title
> >>  "Planet of the apes"@en,
> >>  "La plančte des singes"@fr .
> >>
> >> So you can't really escape the per-value language attribute, can you?
> >
> > Generally, you will not get a mixed language metadata file.
>


Take a look at
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp/pdfs/XMPSpecificationPart2.pdf , e.g. page
28: dc:title has the value type Lang Alt. And that is defined at p. 21/22 of
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp/pdfs/XMPSpecificationPart1.pdf as an array
of language alternatives. So using this mechanism you can have mixed
language metadata for the same field.



> I don't
> > know where you take your example from. I am following general practice
> > in libraries and other institutes that create metadata and they will
> > keep metadata descriptions for the same media resource separate as
> > much as possible.
>


I don't agree. Actually I am currently supervising a thesis on how to get
metadata being separate into the media ressource - see
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-annotation/2010Apr/0060.html
and this started (not as the only case) as a request from an archive to this
done.

Best,


Felix



> You can, of course, make up a metadata format that
> > can have multiple mixed language annotations, but I am finding those
> > rather unusable and am not sure we should be supporting it in the API.
> >
>   This is *definitely* not an artificial use case. As I have noted before,
> both QuickTime and MPEG-4 files support multiple metadata values with the
> same key.This feature is definitely used to include multiple localizations
> of metadata in movie files.
>
> eric
>
>
>

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